Publications

A complete publication list may be accessed at Google Scholar.  

Publications from our lab’s primary research projects

Barnard student co-authors underlined.

Frenette, B., Guéno, J., Houde, N., Landry-Truchon, K., Giguère, A., Ashok, T., Ryckman, A., Morton, B., Mansfield, J.H. and L. Jeannotte. 2024.  Loss of Hoxa5 function affects Hox gene expression in different biological contexts. Scientific Reports 14 (1): 30903.

Brent, A.E., Buchholtz, E.A. and J.H. Mansfield. 2023. Evolutionary assembly and disassembly of the mammalian sternum. Current Biology 33: 197-205.

Mitchel, K., Bergmann, J.M., Brent, A.E., Finkelstein, T.M., Schindler, K.A., Holzman,
M.A., Jeannotte, L., and J.H. Mansfield. 2022. Hoxa5 activity across the lateral somitic frontier regulates development of the mouse sternum. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 10: 806545.

Holzman, M.A., Ryckman, A., Finkelstein, K.M., Landry-Truchon, K., Schindler, K.A., Bergmann,
J.M., Jeannote, L. and J.H. Mansfield. 2021. HOXA5 Participates in Brown Adipose Tissue and Epaxial Skeletal Muscle Patterning and in Brown Adipocyte Differentiation. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 9: 632303.

Holzman, M.A., Bergmann, J.M., Feldman, M., Landry-Truchon, K., Jeannotte, L., Mansfield, J.H. 2018. HOXA5 protein expression and genetic fate mapping show lineage restriction in the developing musculoskeletal system. International Journal of Developmental Biology 62: 785796.

Landry-Truchon, K, Houde N, Boucherat O, Joncas FH, Dasen JS, Philippidou P, Mansfield JH, Jeannotte L. 2017. Hoxa5 plays tissue-specific roles in the developing respiratory system. Development. 144:3547-3561.

Kanost… Shukla, A., Hirsh, A., Mansfield, J.H… and 111 others. 2016. Multifaceted biological insights from a draft genome sequence of the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 76:118-47.

Koenig C, Hirsh A, Bucks S, Klinner C, Vogel H, Shukla A, Mansfield JH, Morton B, Hansson BS, Grosse-Wilde E. 2015. A reference gene set for chemosensory receptor genes of Manduca sexta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 66: 51-63.

Wong S.F., Agarwal V., Mansfield J.H., Denans N., Schwartz M.G., Prosser H.M., Pourquié O., Bartel D.P., Tabin C.J., McGlinn E. 2015. Independent regulation of vertebral number and vertebral identity by microRNA-196 paralogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 112(35):E4884-93.

Mansfield, J. H., E. Haller, N.D. Holland and A.E. Brent. 2015. Development of somites and their derivatives in amphioxus, and implications for the evolution of vertebrate somites. EvoDevo 6: 21.

Afroz, A., Howlett, N., Shukla, A., Ahmad, F., Batista, E., Bedard, K., Payne, S., Morton, B., Mansfield, J.H. and J.I. Glendinning. 2013. Gustatory receptor neurons in Manduca sexta contain a TrpA1-dependent signaling pathway that integrates taste and temperature. Chemical Senses 38(7):605-17.

Chen, J. W., Zahid, S., Shilts, M.H., Weaver, S., Leskowitz, R.M., Habbsa, S., Aronowitz, D., Rokins, K.P., Chang, Y., Pinnella, Z., Holloway, L. and J.H. Mansfield. 2013. Hoxa-5 acts in segmented somites to regulate cervical vertebral morphology. Mechanisms of Development 130(4-5):226-40.

Howlett, N., Dauber, K.L., Shukla, A., Morton, B., Glendinning, J.I., Brent, E., Gleason, C.,
Islam, F., Izquierdo, D., Sanghavi, S., Afroz, A., Aslam, A., Barbaro, M., Blutstein, R., Borovka, M., Desire, B., Elikhis, A., Fan, Q., Hoffman, K., Huang, A., Keefe, D., Lopatin, S., Miller, S., Patel, P., Rizzini, D., Robinson, A., Rokins, K., Turlik, A., and J. H. Mansfield. 2012. Identification of chemosensory receptor genes in Manduca sexta and knockdown by RNA interference. BMC Genomics 13: 211.

Mansfield, J.H. and A. Abzhanov. 2010. Hox expression in the American alligator and evolution of archosaurian axial patterning. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution), 314B(8): 629-44. (cover illustration with article for that issue)

McGlinn, E., Yekta, S., Mansfield, J.H., Soutschek, J., Bartel, D.P., and C.J. Tabin. 2009. In ovo application of antagomiRs indicates a role for miR-196 in patterning the chick axial skeleton through Hox gene regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(44): 18610-5.

Hornstein, E., Mansfield, J.H., Hu, J., Yekta, S., Harfe, B.D., McManus, M.T., Baskerville, S., Bartel, D.P. and C.J. Tabin. 2005. miR-196 acts upstream of Hoxb-8 and Sonic Hedgehog in limb development. Nature 438: 671- 4.

Harfe, B.D., McManus, M.T., Mansfield, J.H., Hornstein, E., and C.J. Tabin. 2005. The RNAse III enzyme Dicer is required for morphogenesis but not patterning of the vertebrate limb. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102: 10898-903.

Mansfield, J.H., Harfe, B.D., Nissen, R., Obenauer, J., Srineel, J., Chaudhuri, A., Farzan Kashani, R., Zuker, M., Pasquinelli, A., Ruvkun, G., Sharp, P.A., Tabin, C.J. and M.T. McManus. 2004. microRNA-responsive “sensor” transgenes uncover Hox-like and other developmentally regulated patterns of vertebrate microRNA expression. Nature Genetics 36: 1079-83.

Mansfield, J.H., Wilhelm, J.E. and T. Hazelrigg. 2002. Ypsilon Schachtel, a Drosophila Y-box protein, acts antagonistically to Orb in the oskar mRNA localization and translation pathway. Development 129(1): 197-209.

Wilhelm, J.E., Mansfield, J., Hom-Booher, N., Wang, S., Turck, C., Hazelrigg, T. and R.D. Vale. 2000. Isolation of a ribonucleoprotein complex involved in mRNA localization in Drosophila oocytes. Journal of Cell Biology 148(3): 427-440.

Other publications

Holland, N.D. and J.H. Mansfield. 2023. In amphioxus embryos, some neural tube cells resemble differentiating coronet cells of fishes and tunicates. Biological Bulletin 224: 1-8.

McGlinn, E., Holzman, M.A., Mansfield, J.H.. 2019. Detection of gene expression in mouse embryos and tissue sections, 2nd ed. Methods in Molecular Biology. 1920:183-218.

Mansfield, J.H. and N.D. Holland. 2015. Amphioxus tails: source and fate of larval fin rays and the metamorphic transition from an ectodermal to a predominantly mesodermal tail. Acta Zoologica 96: 117-125

Bach, D.M., Holzman, M.A., Wague, F., Miranda, J.L., Lopatkin, A.J., Mansfield, J.H. and J.W. Snow. 2021. Thermal stress induces tissue damage and a broad shift in regenerative signaling pathways in the honey bee digestive tract. Journal of Experimental Biology 224(18):jeb242262.

Cornell, W. C., Morgan, C. J., Koyama, L., Sakhtah, H., Mansfield, J. H., Dietrich, L. E. 2018. Paraffin Embedding and Thin Sectioning of Microbial Colony Biofilms for Microscopic Analysis. Journal of Visualized Experiments 133: e57196.

Mansfield, J.H. and E. McGlinn. 2012. Evolution, expression and developmental function of Hox-embedded microRNAs. Current Topics in Developmental Biology 99: 31-57.

McGlinn E., and J.H. Mansfield. 2011. Detection of gene expression in mouse embryos and tissue sections. Methods in Molecular Biology 770: 259-92.

Mansfield, J.H. 2010. microRNAs in animal development. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Wiley. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0021489.

Hazelrigg, T, and J.H. Mansfield. 2006. The uses of Green Fluorescent Protein in Drosophila. Methods Biochemical Analysis 47: 227-57.

Mansfield, J., Quan, W., Jia, C., and M. Halpern. 2005. Sexual dimorphism in the accessory olfactory bulb and vomeronasal organ of the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica. Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 10: Part 1, 5 p. 283-290. (undergraduate research).